Ruth; 1 Samuel 1-7 Part 1 • Dr. Lori Newbold • June 1-7 • Come, Follow Me
5/27/20261 hr 12 min
What do you do when God’s plan looks nothing like the one you had for yourself? Professor Lori Newbold explores the timeless stories of Ruth, Naomi, and Hannah, uncovering what loyalty, grief, and a relational faith in Christ can teach us about trusting God through life’s most unexpected detours.
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TIMECODE
0:00 - Part 1 - Professor Lori Newbold
2:09 Thematic set up
6:43 Come, Follow Me Manual
7:24 Gratitude for unanswered prayers and Naomi
9:30 The healthiness of grief
11:45 Sitting with sadness
14:10 Emotional pain has no painkiller
16:16 Naomi’s love for her daughters-in-law and hesed
19:25 Ruth’s declaration and Mosiah 18
20:46 What kind of mother-in-law was Naomi
24:51 Ruth replaced her gods with Jehovah
27:52 Part-member families and “I will go”
28:25 Writing dreams in pencil
30:19 Ruth gleaning in the fields and Boaz
33:55 Kanap–wings and the skirt
35:25 The Goel–Redeemer and kinsman
41:47 Leaving Jerusalem–faith and relational not outcome based
43:48 “But if not” faith
46:06 Ruth’s request at the threshing floor
51:12 Boaz keeping the Law and seeking answers to others’ prayers
53:56 President Christofferson on God’s PLan
1:01:28 Bitter and sweet–Boaz as type of Jesus Christ
1:02:26 Meekness as a defining attribute
1:05:36 Developing meekness
1:08:12 What would Hannah want us to know?
1:12: 22 End of Part 1 - Professor Lori Newbold
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsHank Smith· Host0:00
Coming up in this episode on Follow Him.
Lori Newbold· Guest0:03
It has just been a constant deconstruction by the Lord of my desires and plans and hopes to a space of a constant, "Okay, where are we going? I'll go where you want me to go." I don't always go happily at first, but I go. Then on my way, [laughs] I work on my attitude, and eventually I can look back and see Ruth has that eventually, too. After, when she does know Boaz and she's blessed with a child that she didn't get to have with her husband, I think it's a look back and say, "I'm so glad I went."
Hank Smith· Host0:36
[upbeat music] Hello, my friends. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm here with my cohost, John Bytheway, a mighty man of wealth. John. [laughs] [laughs] I read that, and it was the o- actually the only thing I could find.
John Bytheway· Host0:54
[laughs] Oh. [laughs] Well, if wealth is measured in a number of tiny die-cast airplanes I have in my office, yeah, I'll take it.
Hank Smith· Host1:01
You are very wealthy. Do you know he that hath eternal life is rich, John.
John Bytheway· Host1:05
Yes. And friends and family, yeah, I feel blessed.
Hank Smith· Host1:08
[laughs] John, we are privileged today to have with us Sister Lori Newbold. Lori, welcome to Follow Him.
Lori Newbold· Guest1:14
Thank you. So glad to be here.
Hank Smith· Host1:16
Yeah. Oh, Lori, I've been looking forward to this day for a long time. When I told my sister, Jennifer Johnson, she r- is the director of Women's Conference over at BYU. When I said, "Jen, I'm gonna have Lori Newbold," there was a hush that